It wouldn't pay a lot, but if you've got a community college (2 year) nearby, you can adjunct teach with an M.S.


I don't know what state you are in, but Texas has a program where if you want to teach in STEM subjects, you can train to teach school while doing your student teaching & training the first year with pay. (I am not sure if this is only after your unemployment runs out or not, but there are districts where you can take the classes in person and then pay back the cost once you are teaching for pay the first year.) They may have even waived the tuition fee for H. H did the certification courses online (occasionally he had to go to the university in person, a bit of a drive as it is on the other side of Houston) though at the end he had to take a computer certification test at a testing facility nearby on the subjects he wanted to be certified to teach in like composite science, math, computer science and for the grade levels, which was like 7th or 8th and above. Those tests were a couple hundred dollars a piece. You just need a B.S. or M.S. H actually did it with a PhD. That's how much trouble he had finding another job after being downsized. His PhD was in Physical Chemistry, B.S. in Chemistry.


I tried to do that teacher program too, but I lasted 2.5 days once the kids came (7th grade life science), and that was it. So much stuff dumped down on me (all the teachers really, not just me) from the administration, I got so overwhelmed, I couldn't take it and ended up depressed and suicidal. Actual teaching is very stressful (much more than the 40 hr/week H is paid for) though it could be less stressful than your current position; I don't know. H found it less stressful than what he had done before though he felt like it was reaching a new low, high school teaching with a PhD. Though in a roundabout way that high school teaching job led to his getting an offer to become a professor at a university (through a summer program at the university for STEM teachers of at risk students).